The faerie queene : disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII morall vertues

by: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599; Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer; Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, publisher

Publication date: 1590

Publisher: London : Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

Collection: americana

Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Cataloged from imperfect copy; title from ESTC

Baldwin 2923d and Baldwin 2923f: Lacks fols. A1, A2 and everything after fol. Oo8; Baldwin 2923d also lacks fol. XX7

Baldwin 2923d and Baldwin 2923f: Unable to discern which of three known variants (STC 23080, 23081, 23081a) matches this copy

Signatures: A-2O+

Printer's name from STC (2nd ed.)

Baldwin 2923d: Contains occasional manuscript marginalia, some of which has been cancelled

Baldwin 2923d: Significant insect damage; text affected on several leaves

Baldwin 2923d: Autograph on p. [1] at the end: "John Growe:"

Baldwin 2923f: Fol. A2 supplied in MS facsimile

Baldwin 2923f: Slip cancel on first line of fol. F3r

Baldwin 2923f: Duplicate of fol. B4 from another copy bound after fol. B5; fol. G1 supplied from another copy

Baldwin 2923f: Contains occasional manuscript marginalia; autograph on fol. A5r: "Richard Wilson Anno Dom[in]i 1645. ..."

ESTC

ESTC

ESTC

STC (2nd ed.)

STC (2nd ed.)

STC (2nd ed.)